Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Date: July 28, 2013 05:52AM
One of the posts intrigues me, in it PALEFACE says he (or she, don’t know which) anyway, they wonder how much of the LIVING WORD should be accepted and how much should be rejected completely. Personally, I do believe in most of the LATTER RAIN theology, up to a point. JRS was more LATTER RAIN than any of the ones that God supposedly told him to avoid joining, however, I think if that happened, God was speaking more about the people themselves, not about the theology. At any rate, however that was, JRS did embrace Latter Rain to a degree greater than anyone that I have ever heard of to this day. THE WALK was LATTER RAIN on steroids, and still is.
I personally don’t believe Apostles and Prophets were ever removed from the Body of Christ, it is just that true Apostles and Prophets don’t go around bragging about it. They are humble people, it is not important to them to take such a high position for all the world to see. There is going to be a “Manifestation of the sons (and daughters) of God, as there is truly going to be a Church come to fruition one day, or there will be no return of the Bridegroom to marry that Bride. There must be a Church without spot or wrinkle. It is just not going to happen the way the WALK invisioned it with super apostles and prophets, ruling the world with a rod of iron without Christ manifesting literally, that is the biggest thing the WALK failed in, the realization that this will not happen without Christ Himself at the Head.
The Walk got into the same old “shepherding” thing that is among all the cults, they created for themselves a golden calf, they did not want to relate to this “invisible God,” they wanted for themselves a “shepherd” they could see and feel and touch. I believe there is a reason for that. I believe that any time someone creates and idol for themselves it is because they believe they can to a degree control that idol. They want someone on a pedestal because they know they can influence that idol and gain power for themselves by “being one with” them.
The WALK committed idolatry and that is why it has turned out to be a failure. If you listen to some of the tapes where JRS and Marilyn were talking together, you will notice that at first Stevens would correct her when she got too spacy, when her comments got too new age, but as he got sicker he decreased and she increased and I think he finally realized that he had made a huge mistake. JRS was like any other man, in my opinion, he did like thousands of ministers do, he got his head turned by the younger woman, JRS was no infallible super apostle that could not be wrong, and I think he found that out before he died.